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During the past twenty-seven years, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service have substantially revised the consolidated return regulations. These changes, coupled with recent legislative developments, judicial decisions, and published and private rulings, have dramatically changed the operating rules of consolidated returns. An understanding of these rules is critical for practitioners and corporate tax ...

The explosion of new financial products over the past decade like the emergence of cryptocurrencies, the implosion of the credit markets and the resulting significant regulatory requirements underline the importance of a basic understanding of financial products. While these instruments have been invaluable investment tools, with enormous potential for product manufacturers and investors, they also create potentially significant legal risks and challenges ...

Our 21st Anniversary program will continue to focus on transactions, highlighting the tax problems encountered by practitioners in today’s typical commercial real estate transactions and structures, and examining the simple and sophisticated solutions being used by the experts. Panels of nationally-recognized real estate tax experts from major law and accounting firms will provide attorneys, accountants and real estate professionals with ...

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PLI’s Private Fund Regulatory Developments and Compliance Challenges carries on a tradition as one of PLI’s first programs of the new year to review the private fund regulatory landscape, offering a first look at what the balance of the calendar will bring. Led by an expert faculty of private fund in-house counsel and leading firm lawyers, the discussion is always lively and informative.
The 2019 program ...

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Effective risk prevention practice, a volatile political environment, occasional fraud and cross border issues require businesses to preplan and limit risk, including with distressed companies. The program will cover current issues relating to structuring, drafting and enforcing the rights of creditors and parties to loans, various executory contracts and intercreditor agreements, principally in out-of-court restructurings ...

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Electronic information pervades our society. Corporations and other organizations create, store, and utilize that information in all facets of business. Unfortunately, security can be breached and any breach can lead to investigations by various government agencies at the federal and State levels. Those investigations may lead to disputes about scope, variety and volume of electronic information to be produced.
This program will ...

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After robust CMBS issuance in 2015 and disappointing declines in CMBS originations for 2016 and 2017, CMBS loan originations are once again becoming a significant portion of mortgage loan origination. The MBA’s latest Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Debt Outstanding Report states that the level of such debt increased by $44.3 billion to end at $3.2 trillion for the first quarter. That increase was greater than “any ...

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Legal Services providers are under increasing pressure from government regulators and clients to insure that sensitive client data stored in law firm servers is secure. The Securities and Exchange Commission, for example, is taking a closer look at cybersecurity breaches in public companies – viewing them as fiduciary lapses. Legal services providers, like most vendors, are required to adhere to the same security standards ...

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As the world’s economies grow increasingly integrated through trade, acquisitions and joint ventures, U.S. international tax laws impact a greater percentage of businesses and transactions. These international tax rules affect not only large U.S. and non-U.S. based multinationals, but also increasingly affect mid-sized and smaller organizations and investors, financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and other commercial ...

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Broker-dealers that are dually registered as investment advisers are under intense regulatory scrutiny—including an increasingly demanding examination focus from the SEC, FINRA and the states. At the same time, the regulatory framework applying to dual-registrants is about to change dramatically with the anticipated ...

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Lawyers today face increasing pressure to be efficient, handle matters effectively, and produce quality work product and service. They must also utilize appropriate risk management practices and meet the ever-growing number of compliance requirements in many areas of law. These expectations, along with the 24/7 service demand for most businesses, result in tremendous stresses on legal professionals to manage in a ...

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The program will provide an overview of U.S. immigration law, including current developments and trends, and will be extremely useful to attorneys who are new to immigration practice, as well as those who need a refresher on immigration law or are involved in immigration policy.
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Immigration outlook under the administration and Congress
The difference between nonimmigrant ...

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Are you up-to-date on the important developments in federal civil practice and the implications of these developments for your cases? At this program, a distinguished faculty of trial lawyers and judges will provide a dynamic overview of significant recent developments in the law and offer their insights. The program will focus on the impact of these developments on best practices throughout the life of a federal litigation. ...

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OFCCP continues to be the premier government regulatory agency for contractors’ compliance with non-discrimination and affirmative action requirements. The agency continues to aggressively pursue systemic hiring and pay equity. Under Acting Director Leen, the agency has recently issued multiple new directives.
This half-day program will bring together experienced in-house and outside counsel, as well as OFCCP leadership, ...

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Wage and hour litigation remains steady in the courts and is on the rise in arbitration after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Epic Systems confirming the validity of class waivers in arbitration agreements. Attorneys, as well as human resources and compliance personnel must stay up to date on the latest legal developments, be informed about government agency wage and hour initiatives, and be aware of challenges still ...

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Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitter, Yelp, YouTube and other social media sites are transforming not only the daily lives of consumers, but also how companies interact with consumers. Indeed, even the largest, most conservative blue-chip corporations have embraced social media; one recent study reveals that, of the Fortune Global 500, 97% are on LinkedIn; 86% have Twitter accounts; 84% have a presence on ...

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Ethics for Commercial Litigators reviews the most complex ethics issues and relevant case law arising out of commercial litigation. Our experienced faculty will address the latest legal ethics developments in multiple representations, client confidentiality, privilege, the work-product doctrine and waivers, among other important subjects. This program continues to deliver key takeaways that litigators and allied professionals ...

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Managing a nonprofit organization has become increasingly complex as nonprofits are under heightened scrutiny to account for their management and fiduciary practices. This program is designed to examine federal and state laws and regulations affecting nonprofits, as well as new challenges and practical solutions for overcoming those challenges. The program is for attorneys interested in learning more about nonprofit ...

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Artificial Intelligence has become ubiquitous in our homes and workplaces. We encounter it daily shopping online, using smartphones, accessing home assistants, and in many other ways. In the workplace, AI is pervasive in every industry from manufacturing to health care to law. Along with the convenience and productivity AI brings, AI comes with unanticipated legal issues.
Artificial Intelligence 2019 will explore the technology ...

Experienced entertainment attorneys and business executives will discuss legal, financial, business, and ethical issues in the practice of entertainment law, with a focus on new methods of delivery.
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The morning session will address high-level issues in entertainment industry transactions and will cover legal and business issues and emerging trends in the television and video industries, including recent developments involving online ...

Experienced entertainment attorneys and business executives will discuss legal, financial, business, and ethical issues in the practice of entertainment law, with a focus on new methods of delivery.
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The morning session will be geared toward a basic understanding of an artist-record company agreement in the format of a mock negotiation, and will address current issues and trends in the recording industry, including digital distribution ...

Experienced entertainment attorneys and business executives will discuss legal, financial, business, and ethical issues in the practice of entertainment law, with a focus on new methods of delivery.
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The morning session will provide a review of theater-related agreements including rights acquisition and financing, followed by trends and hot topics in digital entertainment. The afternoon session will provide a basic understanding ...

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The Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) are reshaping patent law, and this program will teach you everything you need to know about the basics of patent litigation in this rapidly changing landscape. An expert faculty will cover the patent litigation process from start to finish, including actions brought in federal district court and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). ...

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Leases, known as the building blocks of value for all real estate, are primary business and investment assets, but also contain or create landmines of liability, accidental litigation and disputes as well as hidden risks with attendant opportunities for malpractice and mistake of the parties. If written poorly, negotiated by inexperienced counsel or administered without expertise, leases can be the downfall of an otherwise sound ...